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• Some of my papers are available at:
  
  https://researchmap.jp/kazuhirokawachi/
  
  https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kazuhiro-Kawachi-2/research/

Career 【 Display / hide 】

Career 【 Display / hide 】

• 1992.04

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  2000.02

  Keio Shiki Boys' Senior High School, Division of Foreign Languages, Full-time Teacher

• 2008.10

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  2010.09

  National Defense Academy of Japan, Department of Foreign Languages, Assistant Professor

• 2010.10

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  2017.03

  National Defense Academy of Japan, Department of Foreign Languages, Associate Professor

• 2017.04

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  2021.03

  National Defense Academy of Japan, Department of Foreign Languages, Professor

• 2021.04

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  Present

  Keio University, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Professor

Academic Background 【 Display / hide 】

Academic Background 【 Display / hide 】

• 1983.04

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  1986.03

  Keio Boys' Senior High School

  Graduated

• 1986.04

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  1990.03

  Keio University, Faculty of Business and Commerce

  University, Graduated

• 1990.04

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  1992.03

  Keio University, Faculty of Letters

  University, Graduated

• 1996.07

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  1996.08

  University of California, Berkeley, Teaching English as a Foreign Language Summer Institute

  United States, Completed

• 1997.08

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  2007.06

  State University of New York at Buffalo, Department of Linguistics and Center for Cognitive Science Ph.D. program

  United States, Graduate School, Completed, Doctoral course

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Academic Degrees 【 Display / hide 】

• Ph.D. in Linguistics, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2007.06

Licenses and Qualifications 【 Display / hide 】

Licenses and Qualifications 【 Display / hide 】

• Teaching certificate for English at senior high school, 1990.03

• Teaching certificate for English at junior high school, 1992.03

Research Areas 【 Display / hide 】

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• Humanities & Social Sciences / Linguistics

Research Keywords 【 Display / hide 】

Research Keywords 【 Display / hide 】

• Linguistic typology

• Cognitive linguistics

• Semantics and pragmatics

• Syntax and morphology

• Psycholinguistics

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Books 【 Display / hide 】

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• Motion Event Descriptions across Languages

  Yo Matsumoto (ed.), De Gruyter Mouton, 2025.01

  Scope: Chapter 3: Kupsapiiny as a predominantly anti-verb-framed, non-head path-coding language. , Accepted

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  This chapter examines descriptions of motion events in the video clips for the NINJAL motion project by speakers of Kupsapiiny (Southern Nilotic; Uganda), and demonstrates that the typological pattern of this language, which has morphological path and deictic-directional satellites, can vary depending on the complexity of the construction used. In a single-verb construction, it most frequently exhibits the satellite-framed pattern. In a more complex monoclausal multi-verb construction, a different pattern is exhibited. Its dominant subtype is one where a manner-of-motion verb as a main verb precedes the non-tensed form of a path-of-motion verb or a deictic-directional verb, a type of nonhead-framed (head-external path-coding) construction, which is neither satellite-framed nor verb-framed. Thus, Kupsapiiny consistently avoids verb-framed constructions. Hence, Kupsapiiny’s system does not fit in any of the systems that Talmy (2000b) recognizes, including such minor systems as split, parallel, and intermixed systems. It can be characterized as predominantly anti-verb-framed, showing a nonhead (head-external) path-coding pattern that can emerge as the morphological satellite-framed construction, or alternatively, as the nonhead-framed, monoclausal multi-verb sub-construction as a pattern contrasting with the verb-framed pattern along a dimension different from that in Talmy’s dichotomy, where the satellite-framed pattern contrasts with the verb-framed pattern.

• Motion Event Descriptions across Languages

  Yo Matsumoto (ed.), De Gruyter Mouton, 2025.01

  Scope: Chapter 4: Does the degree of integration of constructions iconically reflect motion event types? The case of Sidaama. , Accepted

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  According to Croft et al. (2010), more typical or natural situations are likely to be expressed with a more tightly integrated construction than those that are less so. The present chapter examines descriptions of NINJAL motion event video clips by speakers of Sidaama (Highland-East Cushitic; Ethiopia), and shows that as far as the Sidaama data is concerned, the typicality or naturalness of an event is not a factor in giving rise to the use of a syntactically more integrated construction in motion event descriptions, uncovering inconsistency with Croft et al.’s hypothesis. Specific problematic cases concern the highly unusual manners of motion in Sidaama culture, skipping and jumping once (from one place to another). For skipping, there is no lexical item that specifically describes this manner, and thus available lexical items that express similar manners are used instead; accordingly, the degree of the syntactic integration of the construction depends on the particular lexical item used for the manner. Motion events involving a figure’s arrival at a goal by jumping once are expressed with considerable frequency by means of a compact construction consisting of a manner verb and a goal noun phrase with a path marker because the property of ‘jumping once’ functions not only as the co-event of manner but also as the co-event of enablement or cause, as well as its short path, exhibiting iconicity in usage.

• The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages.

  Ronny Meyer, Bedilu Wakjira, and Zelealem Leyew (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2023.04

  Scope: Chapter 17: Sidaama.,  Contact page： 320-343 , Accepted

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  This chapter provides a sketch of the grammar of Sidaama, a Highland East Cushitic language spoken in the Sidaama Zone of south-central Ethiopia. After giving very brief background information on this language, it outlines the phonological system, lexical and grammatical categories, the morphology of its verbs, nouns, and adjectives, and the structure of its single-verb, multi-verb, and complex-clause constructions. Phenomena of particular typological interest described in the grammatical category section, the morphology section, and the clause structure section include noun-phrase clitics, the modification and the MODIFICATION distinctions of nouns, and external possessor constructions, respectively. The chapter also overviews different types of speech reports as well as focus- and topic-marking strategies and cleft-construction formation as topics of pragmatics.

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• Associated Motion

  Antoine Guillaume and Harold Koch (eds.), De Gruyter Mouton, 2021.02

  Scope: Chapter 19: The ‘along’–deictic-directional verb suffix complex in Kupsapiny.,  Contact page： 747-777 , Accepted

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  The present study describes the use of a verb suffix complex consisting of the ‘along’ suffix and a deictic-directional suffix in Kupsapiny, a Southern Nilotic language of Uganda. In addition to specifying deictic direction of motion, this suffix complex can be used to emphasize the continuity or iteration of the translational motion expressed by a motion verb or to motionalize a non-motion verb to express associated motion (Koch 1984; Wilkins 1991; Guillaume 2013, 2016). It can also function as a pure aspectual marker, which involves no motion at all. There- fore, the use of this suffix complex always conveys the concept of continuation or iteration, and associated motion does not seem to be totally independent of the temporal category of aspect in Kupsapiny. Other typological implications of the findings are further discussed.

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• Broader Perspectives on Motion Event Descriptions

  Yo Matsumoto and Kazuhiro Kawachi (eds.), John Benjamins., 2020.08,  Page： 324

  , Accepted

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  Human languages exhibit fascinating commonalities and variations in the ways they describe motion events. In this volume, the contributors present their research results concerning motion event descriptions in the languages that they investigate. The volume features new proposals based on a broad range of data involving different kinds of motion events previously understudied, such as caused motion (e.g., kick a ball across) and even visual motion (e.g., look into a hole). Special attention is also paid to deixis, a hitherto neglected aspect of motion event descriptions. A wide range of languages is examined, including those spoken in Europe, Africa, and Asia. The results provide new insights into the patterns languages deploy to represent motion events. This volume will appeal to anyone interested in language universals and typology, as well as the relationship between language and thought.

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Papers 【 Display / hide 】

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• An investigation of Japanese causative constructions based on speakers’ acceptability ratings.

  Kazuhiro Kawachi

   2025

  Research paper (scientific journal), Single Work, Accepted

• Long default and short indefinite noun forms in Kupsapiiny: Synchronic usage and diachronic development.

  Kazuhiro Kawachi

  Gengo Kenkyu: Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan (Linguistic Society of Japan)  163   79 - 110 2023.01

  Research paper (scientific journal), Accepted,  ISSN  0024-3914

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  In Kupsapiiny, a Southern Nilotic language of Uganda, nearly all common nouns in the singular or the plural have two forms depending on the presence vs. absence of a suffix. This study examines how long and short common noun forms (with and without the suffix, respectively) occur in discourse by means of Dryer’s (2014) Reference Hierarchy. It shows that short forms are only infrequently used for indefinites, with their mandatory use restricted to two types of indefinites, semantically nonspecific indefinites involving negation and true-predicate nominals, whereas long forms serve as frequently used, default forms, which occur not only in definite situations, but also – in fact, more commonly than short forms – in most indefinite situations. The present study hypothesizes that long forms have semantically generalized from forms marking definiteness, i.e., the speaker’s assumption about the identifiability or accessibility of the referent to the hearer (Givón 1995, 2001), to those indicating the speaker’s assumption about the accessibility of the referent (type) to the hearer (or sometimes the speaker themself) with the result that their context extended from definite situations to include most indefinite situations, as reported about the diachronic development of definite articles in other languages (e.g., Greenberg 1978). It speculates that the context extension for long forms was brought about by associations between referents in discourse based on the Gricean maxim of relation as well as subjectification. Other types of factors than the speaker’s assumption about the referent (type) accessibility and indefiniteness in the choice between long and short forms (lexical, constructional, contextual, and generational differences as well as special uses of short forms for definites) are also described. This study also points out that the Kupsapiiny noun system as a whole contradicts the grammatical form–frequency correspondence hypothesis (Haspelmath 2021).

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• Directness of causation and morphosyntactic complexity of constructions: Japanese and Korean cases.

  Kawachi, Kazuhiro, Sang-Hee Park, and Erika Bellingham

  Japanese/Korean Linguistics (Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications)  26   225 - 236 2020.07

  Research paper (scientific journal), Joint Work, Accepted

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  This study examines how the constructional choices Japanese and Korean speakers make in describing causal events iconically reflect the directness of causation in the event. We use experimental production data to explore multiple possible factors that could contribute to the perceived directness of causation for a given event. In both the Japanese and Korean data, we find multiple factors of directness of causation reflected iconically through the use of constructions with varying degrees of morphosyntactic compactness, in harmony with the Iconicity Principle (Haiman 1983, 1985). The Japanese and the Korean data exhibit many properties in common, despite their different inventories of constructions.

• Different types of causality and clause linkage in English, Japanese, Sidaama, and Yucatec Maya.

  Kawachi, Kazuhiro, Erika Bellingham, and Jürgen Bohnemeyer

  Papers from the 18th National Conference of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association (2017) (Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association)  18   47 - 59 2018.06

  Research paper (international conference proceedings), Joint Work,  ISSN  1346-7964

• Is Sidaama (Sidamo) a marked-nominative language?

  Kawachi, Kazuhiro

  LACUS Forum (2010) (Houston, TX: Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States.)  37   75 - 86 2017.03

  Research paper (scientific journal), Single Work, Accepted,  ISSN  0195-377X

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Papers, etc., Registered in KOARA 【 Display / hide 】

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• Descriptions of the grammars of Kupsapiiny and Sidaama and typological studies on theoretical issues using data on these languages

  Kawachi, Kazuhiro

  福澤諭吉記念慶應義塾学事振興基金事業報告集 (福澤基金運営委員会)  2022

• Descriptions of the grammars of East-African languages for the purpose of contributions to the speech communities and the development of the writing systems

  Kawachi, Kazuhiro

  学事振興資金研究成果実績報告書 (慶應義塾大学)  2022

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• Eigo to hoka ho gengo no idoo-dooshi no bunpooteki tokuchoo (Grammatical properties of motion verbs in English and other languages).

  Kazuhiro Kawachi

  大谷直輝、中川裕、野元裕樹、長屋尚典（編）『言語研究に潜む英語のバイアス』 (Tokyo: Hituzi)   2025

  Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (scientific journal), Single Work, Lead author, Last author, Corresponding author

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  異なる類型的特徴が共存する英語を中心にして、1970年代から移動動詞は形態統語的な定義が可能なカテゴリーを形成しないという論述がなされている。本稿では、比較的一貫した類型的特性を示す言語（ハンガリー語、クプサビーニィ語、ネワール語）において移動動詞に典型的に見られる形態統語的特徴が存在し、それらの特徴は他の意味領域の動詞にもオーバーラップして見られるため移動動詞を定義することができるものではないものの、そのオーバーラップには通言語的にある程度のパターンが見られることを指摘する。さらに、従来の移動経路の表現方法による類型分類に加えて、方向ダイクシスの表現のし方をもとにした言語の類型分類を提案する。

• Typology of motion expressions

  Kazuhiro Kawachi

   2025

  Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (scientific journal)

• Review of Motomichi Wakasa (2020) A Descriptive Study of the Modern Wolaytta Language.

  Kazuhiro Kawachi

  Nilo-Ethiopian Studies.    19 - 21 2022.10

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• 新しいアフリカ言語研究

  大野仁美、河内一博、中川裕、米田信子、亀井伸孝、森壮也、宮本律子

  アフリカ研究 (日本アフリカ学会)   ( 100 ) 67 - 72 2021.12

  Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (scientific journal), Joint Work,  ISSN  0065-4140

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• クプサビニィ語の名詞の定性の区別：Dryer の定性の標識の類型論的枠組みでの分析

  河内 一博

  日本言語学会第157回大会予稿集 (日本言語学会)     330 - 335 2018.11

  Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (scientific journal), Single Work

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Presentations 【 Display / hide 】

Presentations 【 Display / hide 】

• Gender marking on grammatical nominalizations in Sidaama.

  Kazuhiro Kawachi

  Second Meeting on Cushitic languages and linguistics at Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale, 

  2024.12

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  Oral presentation (general)

• Associated motion in the context of Talmy’s motion typology.

  Kazuhiro Kawachi

  (Le Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage, CNRS and Université Lumière Lyon 2) , 

  2024.02

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  Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)

• Gender marking on definite and indefinite noun phrases in Swedish.

  Tatjana Ilic and Kazuhiro Kawachi

  「類別詞と文法的性を中心にした文法的体言化に関する類型的研究」&「体言化の実証的な言語類型論 – 理論・フィールドワーク・歴史・方言の観点から –」合同研究会　於国立国語研究所（オンライン）, 

  2023.10

• Causatives cluster semantically by juncture level across languages.

  Erika Bellingham, Juergen Bohnemeyer, Andrea Ariño-Bizarro, Jing Du, James Essegbey, Stephanie Evers, Saima Hafeez, Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Pia Järnefelt, Kazuhiro Kawachi, Yu Li, Thomas Fuyin Li, Tatiana Nikitina, Sang-Hee Park, Anastasia Stepanova, Guillermo Montero-Melis, and Emamuel Bylund

  RRG 2023: International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar, 14-16 August 2023 at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf., 

  2023.08

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  Oral presentation (general)

• Grammaticalization of deictic-directional verbs into prior associated motion proclitics in Kupsapiiny: An investigation from a typological perspective.

  Kazuhiro Kawachi

  60th Meeting of the Japan Association for African Studies (Makuhari International Training Center) , 

  2023.05

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  Japan Association for African Studies

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Research Projects of Competitive Funds, etc. 【 Display / hide 】

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• Studies on space, person, and time deixis based on East Africa languages data

  2022.06

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  2025.03

  MEXT, JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Kazuhiro Kawachi, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory), Principal investigator

• Crosslinguistic studies on grammatical nominalizations

  2022.04

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  2027.03

  MEXT, JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Kazuhiro Kawachi, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Principal investigator

• A cross-linguistic study of motion event and state-change event descriptions

  2019.04

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  2023.03

  MEXT, JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Yo Matsumoto, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Coinvestigator(s)

• Iconicity in language use: A cross-linguistic study of constructions used to describe causal events

  2019.04

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  2022.03

  MEXT,JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Principal investigator

• Causality across Languages

  2015.08

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  2023.01

  National Science Foundation, Jürgen Bohnemeyer, Research grant, Other

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Awards 【 Display / hide 】

Awards 【 Display / hide 】

• 山崎奨励賞

  2014.03

  Type of Award： Award from publisher, newspaper, foundation, etc.

• Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States Presidents' Prize for 2009

  2009.08

  Type of Award： Award from international society, conference, symposium, etc.

• College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship, 2005-2006

  2005.08

  Type of Award： Other

Courses Taught 【 Display / hide 】

Courses Taught 【 Display / hide 】

• PRACTICAL ENGLISH SEMINAR 2

  2024

• PRACTICAL ENGLISH SEMINAR 1

  2024

• GENERAL EDUCATION SEMINAR (DB)

  2024

• GENERAL EDUCATION SEMINAR (DA)

  2024

• ENGLISH READING 1B(UPPER INTERMEDIATE)

  2024

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Courses Previously Taught 【 Display / hide 】

Courses Previously Taught 【 Display / hide 】

• Japanese Linguistics

  Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

  2019.10

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  2022.03

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  Autumn Semester, Undergraduate (specialized), Lecture, Outside own faculty (within Keio)

• Topics in Linguistics

  Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

  2019.04

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  2022.07

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  Spring Semester, Undergraduate (specialized), Lecture, Outside own faculty (within Keio)

• Language and Communication/Introduction to Linguistics

  Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

  2017.04

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  2018.03

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  Spring Semester, Undergraduate (specialized), Lecture, Outside own faculty (within Keio)

• Introduction to linguistics

  Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

  2016.04

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  2016.07

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  Spring Semester, Undergraduate (specialized), Lecture, Outside own faculty (within Keio)

• Introduction to Morpho-syntactic and Semantic Typology (winter intensive course)

  Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

  2016.02

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  2022.03

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  Other, Undergraduate (specialized), Outside own faculty (within Keio)

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Social Activities 【 Display / hide 】

Social Activities 【 Display / hide 】

• Joint researcher at NINJAL

  2010.08

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  Present

• Joint researcher at Osaka University

  2009.10

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  2012.03

• Joint researcher at ILCAA

  2008.07

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  2024.03

Academic Activities 【 Display / hide 】

Academic Activities 【 Display / hide 】

• Christine Lamarre フランス国立東洋言語文化学院 (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales)/ 東アジア言語学研究センター (Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale) 名誉教授 言語学講演会

  (慶應義塾大学 日吉キャンパス) , 

  2024.06

• 柴谷方良 (Masayoshi Shibatani) ライス大学名誉教授言語学講演会

  (慶應義塾大学 三田キャンパス) , 

  2023.07

• REVIEW -- Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Typology (De Gruyter), Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences (De Gruyter), Studies in Language (John Benjamins), 『言語研究』、『認知言語学研究』、Studies in African Linguistics, Studies in Language Sciences, Linguistic Discovery, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Asian and African Lexicon, Nilo-Ethiopian Studies, Proceedings of the World Congress of African Linguistics, Linguistique et Langues Africaines, books published by Language Science Press, De Gruyter Mouton, etc.

  2012.04

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  Present

Memberships in Academic Societies 【 Display / hide 】

Memberships in Academic Societies 【 Display / hide 】

• 日本認知言語学会, 

  2007.09

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  Present

• 日本言語学会, 

  2007.10

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  Present

• 日本英語学会, 

  2010.05

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  Present

• Association for Linguistic Typology, 

  2010.10

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  Present

• 日本アフリカ学会, 

  2016.01

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  Present

Committee Experiences 【 Display / hide 】

Committee Experiences 【 Display / hide 】

• 2016.04

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  2018.03

  科学研究費委員会専門委員（英語学）, 日本学術振興会

• 2015.04

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  2024.03

  評議員 , 日本言語学会

• 2014.05

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  2015.08

  大会運営委員, World Congress of African Linguistics

• 2012.07

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  2015.06

  大会運営委員, 日本言語学会

• 2011.11

  発表賞審査員2012年11月, 2014年06月, 2014年11月, 2018年06月, 2019年11月, 日本言語学会